Despite the scale of the pangolin trade, little is actually known about it, even among prosecutors and law enforcement officials in its key market: China
Category: Viet Nam
Greed makes the world go round
Vũ Hùng penned 50 years ago, “Nowadays, humans chop down forests and hunt wild animals to benefit their capital need. If it doesn’t stop, it’s going to be destructive for all of us.”
World’s Major Deltas Threatened By Climate Change and Hydropower
More than 500 million people live on deltas worldwide. The Mekong Delta provides a clear illustration of what’s at stake for many of those people—and some of the ways we may still be able to help them.
The Displaced: Climate change in Vietnam ‘destroying family life’
In 2018 – more than 35,000 people were forced to flee their homes every day – that’s one every two seconds.
PM outlines $129 mln plan to fight Mekong Delta land erosion
Climate change is increasingly complicated, threatening the national development, especially the Mekong Delta, our rice and fruit basket and biggest aquaculture production base.
Victims Left Behind in US Agent Orange Cleanup Efforts
Vietnamese victims have yet to receive compensation – and many live in desperate poverty.
Climate inaction tantamount to violence
The Mekong Delta ie experiencing a massive environmental disaster already for a region that has been teeming with plants, fish and wildlife for thousands of years.
60,000 deaths in Vietnam annually linked to air pollution
Air pollution levels especially level of particulate matter with 2.5 micrometers (PM 2.5) in the air remain dangerously high in Hanoi and big cities of the Southeast Asian country causing concerns.
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